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Article: Honors ex machina: changing perceptions of honors through horizontal integration, a case study.(Administrative Designs)
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- Honors in Practice
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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Honors programs and colleges face numerous pressures from raising money to managing growth to developing and maintaining curricula. None of these challenges, however, are unique to honors. What has, unfortunately, proven to be unique to honors has been the continuing question of relevance. Over the years, "making honors relevant" has been an ongoing part of the national honors discussion.
In the fall/winter 2007 volume of the JNCHC, Ira Cohen used a Robert Burns poem to remind us that others often do not see honors as we see ourselves: "The observation by Burns clearly applies to honors: the viewpoint of those within honors education is frequently at variance ...